MCCI organised a session on Ethos on the Indian Constitution: Unity in Diversity with Ram Nath Kovind, Former President of India & CV Ananda Bose, Governor of WB at Kolkata
Merchants’Chamber of Commerce & Industry organised a session on Ethos on the Indian Constitution: Unity in Diversity on Monday, August 7, where both West BengalGovernor Shri CV Ananda Bose and former President of India Ram Nath Kovind were present. Both Kovind and Bose gave an illustration of the constitution and upheld its sanctity and spirit of secularism.
Bose in his address said that it was easier to form the Constitution but difficult to work with It. The Indian Constitution was formed and we the people of India were still working with it amending laws to suit the time. He said the Constitutional duty was first towards the good of the people, second towards the good of the people, and third towards the good of the people. He said while the whole of India belonged to every individual, each individual belonged to the whole of India. He called for corruption and violence to quit Bengal and appealed to the people to give a ‘symbolic” burial to both corruption and violence in West Bengal.
Kovind, praising the Chamber, said, when most business chambers discussed issues related to business only, the Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry has set an example by taking up issues like the ethos of the Constitution. He said Kolkata was itself an example of unity in diversity with a confluence of multi-religion and multi-linguistics.
He said in India, every 4 km, there is a change in the dialect of a language, and every 8 km, there is a change in language. India’s diverse culture has existed in this way for thousands of years and it will continue to be so. As the country has accepted a number of rulers from various communities and various sects for ages, India has built up as a country of diversity in this way.
Kovind stressed the Preamble of the Constitution, saying that it was the driving force of the country.
